[PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2006-10-28 15:48:54, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 18:52 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > This is ugly, and unneccessary: kernel is centrally controlled. We
> > *will* want to merge such attributes into something standard.
> 
> Uh, such standards don't happen overnight as this thread painfully
> demonstrates, i.e. there is not yet any "standard" for handling
> batteries until dwmw2 actually stepped up. That alone says something.
> And we're at 2.6.19 about 15 years into development of Linux?

And we have sys_open. Not sys_x_ext2_open.

> You may or may not like it... but battery class drivers will have such
> non-standard things. I'm merely suggesting to tag these as non-standard
> so it's bloody evident they are non-standard. For the record, I also
> think that making non standard attributes ugly will help accelerate us
> in standardizing on it. You can also easier grep through the sources to
> find offending code when you do decide to standardize it.

You can simply _not merge offending code in the first place_.

"Lets design it so that stupid things can be grepped for" is stupid,
when we can simply "not allow stupid things to be merged".
								Pavel
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